38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia

The 38th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between June 25, 1925, through September 5, 1928. The first session of this assembly was convened on February 9, 1926. There were three sessions of the assembly during this period.

The election of 1925 represented a shift in Nova Scotia politics as the 37th General Assembly would mark the return of the Conservatives to government after a forty-three year absence.

One of the most significant pieces of legislation to come out of this General Assembly is that of An Act Abolishing the Legislative Council and Amending the Constitution of the Province, in 1928. This act abolished the Legislative Council of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the legislature's upper house. When Rhodes came into office in 1926, it had only one Conservative member and 17 Liberal members, with three vacancies; Rhodes would ultimately appoint 15 new Councillors in order to pack the Council for means of abolition, while dismissing all but a handful of Liberal Councillors.

Division of seats

There were 42 members of this General Assembly, elected in the 1925 Nova Scotia general election.

Leader Party # of Seats
     Edgar Nelson Rhodes Liberal-Conservative 38
  Ernest Howard Armstrong Liberal 3
     Archibald Terris Labour-Conservative 1
Total 42

List of members

Riding Name Position
     Annapolis County Obediah Parker Goucher
     Harry Thompson MacKenzie
  Antigonish County William Chisholm
  John Laughlin McIsaac
     Cape Breton Centre Gordon Sidney Harrington Minister of Public Works & Mines
     Joseph Macdonald
     Cape Breton East John Carey Douglas Attorney General (1925-6)
     Alexander O'Handley
     Colchester County William Boardman Armstrong
     Frank Stanfield
     Cumberland County Percy Chapman Black Minister of Highways
     Daniel George McKenzie Speaker (1925-6)
     Archibald Terris
     Digby County William Hudson Farnham
     John Louis Philip Robicheau
     Guysborough County Simon Osborn Giffin
     Howard Amos Rice
     Halifax County Josiah Frederick Fraser
     Alexander Montgomerie
     John Francis Mahoney
     John Archibald Walker Minister of Natural Resources
& Provincial Development
     William Drysdale Piercey
     Hants County Albert E. Parsons Speaker (1926-8)
     Edgar Nelson Rhodes Provincial Secretary & Premier
     Inverness County Hubert Meen Aucoin
     Malcolm McKay
     Kings County George Clyde Nowlan
     Reginald Tucker Caldwell
     Lunenburg County Wallace Norman Rehfuss
     William Haslam Smith
     Pictou County John Doull
     Robert Albert Douglas
     Hugh Allan MacQuarrie
     Queens County Frank J.D. Barnjum
     William Lorimer Hall Attorney General (1926–1928)
     Richmond County & Cape Breton West Benjamin Amedeé LeBlanc
     John Alexander MacDonald
     Shelburne County Norman Emmons Smith
     Ernest Reginald Nickerson
  Victoria County Donald Buchanan McLeod
     Philip McLeod
     Yarmouth County John Flint Cahan
     Raymond Neri d'Entremont

Former members of the 37th General Assembly

Name Party Electoral District Cause of departure Succeeded by Elected
     John Alexander MacDonald Conservatives Cape Breton West resigned to run federally John Angus Stewart, Con. February 24, 1926
     Frank J.D. Barnjum Conservatives Queens County resigned March 16, 1926 N/A N/A
     John Carey Douglas Conservatives Cape Breton East resigned to run federally N/A N/A
  • Barnjum resigned due to a failed election promise. Upon being nominated Barnjum promised a mill project for Queens County. By 1928 this had not happened and Barnjum resigned due to the failed promise.
Preceded by
37th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
General Assemblies of Nova Scotia
1925–1928
Succeeded by
39th General Assembly of Nova Scotia
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